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Amazon Debuts Sphere-Shaped Echo Speaker, Ring Home Security Drone, Luna Cloud Gaming Service and More
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for god’s sake someone watch this episode of x-files. i know it’s exaggerated but ...
Not really, most of this is just adding features and randomly changing designs to existing products, in markets that Apple would have no interest in.
Amazon are literally just throwing stuff out into the market to see what works, will be interesting to see how many of these products still exist in a few years.
aehm, what is the purpose of a Camera usually nowadays. Selfies or surveillance - both can be achieved with this little friend.
Make snaps of kids birthday’s or roam your home while you are away watching every corner.
The Ring car can has a feature that records when you say "Alexa, I'm being pulled over". Sad times that it is needed or felt like it is needed.
Perhaps someone who wants to check that their robot vacuum is actually working! Lol.
Everything Amazon does, they do well, except probably the Fire tablets.
Home security _really_ sucked until Ring stepped in. (I know Amazon acquired Ring rather than starting it, but still.) Now they're going to fix car security. Car alarms are worse than useless in their current state.
Home security _really_ sucked until Ring stepped in. (I know Amazon acquired Ring rather than starting it, but still.) Now they're going to fix car security. Car alarms are worse than useless in their current state.
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All I need is a drone asking me if my wife and I are an effective team...
Apple and Amazon are both competitors and cooperators. I.e. you can use Amazon's products with your iPhone. Pretty relevant.
Most people don't have Teslas, and most people are also worried about car break-ins.
Yes, they got into the top few by becoming unquestionably dominant in both retail and cloud computing. That's insane. Well, they've got a driven founder CEO, while Goog and Aapl have caretaker CEOs. And their rally started later than Apple's and Google's. Musk's companies too. Bezos and Musk now occupy the tier that Jobs used to.
Bezos also owns a large chunk of Washington Post, which despite being technically separate from Amazon is clearly connected to them. And somehow they've become a mainstream news source. It's kinda scary.
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We must have similar trust issues with our dogs because that was my first thought too 🤣
What do you mean "do something about it"? Apple has continuously said that web apps in the browser are an option if you don't want to be in the app store, that is not something they oppose.
amaOn MUSTVEgotten this from the movie Runaway with Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons (of Kiss)
hmm. It didn’t work for Tom Sellect in Runaway against Gene Simmons drone
I highly doubt this drone will help lower home insurance that much vs an indoor camera security system.
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Love it!
but more closer to another 80’s hit movie called “Runaway” it’s drone helped criminals and even had smoke screen built in!
you guys gotta see this ol school movie.
Tom Selleck
Gene Simmons
Heather Locklear
drones run amok
wow these are almost finally here.
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Oh no, we should never ever see non-Apple products around here, because that would be heresy, and then people will say bad things about the beloved company! /s
People will rip Apple even for Apple products that aren’t to their liking. Not sure why seeing cool stuff that is off-brand is so scary... Frankly, I don’t want Apple to make every single thing in the world. They aren’t necessarily going to be the best TV, or car, or toaster. I love them anyway.
So this drone... flies around your home... And spies on you. Everywhere.
Eating dinner? Bzzzzzz.
Bathroom? BzzBye...
Bedroom...bzzZZZZZZHAIR
The car cam is great; but that cat toy - I mean drone, is fascinating in a bad way.
Eating dinner? Bzzzzzz.
Bathroom? BzzBye...
Bedroom...bzzZZZZZZHAIR
The car cam is great; but that cat toy - I mean drone, is fascinating in a bad way.
So what is different about this than xCloud or Stadia other than it runs in a browser? Isn’t the functionality essentially the same? So Apple doesn’t need to review every game or take 30% of subs if you’re accessing it via Safari and not a Luna Cloud iOS app? And all the concerns about privacy and safety no longer exist?
You make a good point - my understanding is the main difference is that a Web app is essentially sandboxed, it doesn't have hardware or software access to the device or its operating system, at least not to the same level as an app.
The other issue is how could Apple define something running in a browser being against its terms of service, and how to enforce it?